Music aids in personal and social development. It is all about building communication, cooperation, and creativity. By studying music, you are promoting creative problem solving and strengthening the ability to work with others; providing an invaluable link between arts education and workforce development. Vocal music is known to help increase self-esteem by encouraging you to take risks and to be different by thinking creatively. It nurtures the imagination that fuels innovation in today's competitive work force while exposing you to a broad range of perspectives. This gives your the ability to work with people who are different from you. Making music is all about who you can become. 

Music can be a positive force on all aspects of life. Students who study music also exceed in other facets of their education, such as math, reading, and critical thinking. You will learn many things as a result of music. These would include the application of the basics, ability to think, skill in communication, the production of quality work, and a connection with the community.

Music specifically teaches the ability to perform, be creative, increase literacy, deepen response, and understand the connection of the arts and culture.  Music is the expression of human experience through sound. This is the only subject where students get this experience and for many, music is a release. I want music to be a place where you can let your emotions out and leave the troubles of every day life at the door.

Science

It is exact, specific, and demands rhythmic and melody accuracy. A choir director’s score is a chart or graph which indicates frequencies, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. In vocal music, we also discuss the structure of the vocal cords, how to maintain a healthy vocal instrument and the vocal anatomy used to make sounds and resonance.

Mathematical

It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper. Music theory also discusses a lot of these subdivisions as we learn how to read music and understand its notation.

Foreign Language

Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language in the world. In addition, in vocal music we learn to sing in foreign languages as a part of a well-rounded music education that connects history with sung poetry.

History

Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or cultural feelings. In vocal music we are always discussing composers and the historical significance of why a piece was composed during a certain time period and the overall meaning of the text.

Physical Education

It requires fantastic coordination and control of the lips, tongue, facial muscles, diaphragm, back, stomach, and the chest muscles which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. In vocal music, we always discuss how to breathe accurately in order to sing as well as how to use abdominal muscles to support the voice.

Language Arts

We are singing written texts, interpreting, discussing, analyzing, writing, and composing poetry all the time.

Vocal Music is ALL of these things, but most of all…

Art                                    

It allows a human being to take all of these techniques and use them to create emotion; that is one thing that science and computers cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, and emotion. Vocal music strives that we recognize beauty, that we have something to cling to, that we have love, more compassion, more gentleness and sensitivity, and more life!